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Medicine (MBChB)
University of Dundee
School of Medicine| Application Deadline: | October 15 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 3,302 - ≈ € 29,085 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Dundee / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 60 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Dundee
UCAS Code: A100
Dundee is an excellent place to study medicine, both for the high quality of the teaching programme and for the facilities available. Problem-orientated, student-centred and community-based, our medical course closely follows recommendations for 'Tomorrow's Doctors' made by the professional governing body for medicine in the UK, the General Medical Council.
In Dundee you have the opportunity to study medicine in a fully integrated medical school and hospital with extensive teaching and research facilities, which serve both teaching and clinical needs. Ninewells Hospital and Medical School is the centre of many areas of pioneering research in cancer, keyhole surgery, heart disease, drug development, and medical education.
You will be part of a caring community providing healthcare for Tayside, Fife, and further afield, and have access to a wide range of facilities including lecture theatres, teaching laboratories, library, integrated self-teaching area, computer suite and a leading Clinical Skills Centre. A new education facility is being built on the Ninewells Hospital site which will further enhance the quality of our teaching.
Contents
Phase 1
Semester 1, Year 1
This begins with an introduction to the 12 curriculum outcomes for a doctor that will provide the framework for learning throughout the curriculum. Key principles (anatomical, biomedical, disease mechanisms, psychosocial and safe medical practice), are made relevant through work with illustrative core clinical problems. The anatomy of the major body cavities is explored in the dissecting room. Basic clinical and communication skills are developed in general practice and the clinical skills centre.
Longitudinal Student Selected Component (SSC) runs throughout Year 1.
Phase 2
Semester 2 in Year 1,
and Years 2 and 3
Normal and abnormal structure, function and behaviour in relation to clinical medicine are studied systematically in modules (e.g. haematology, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular). Use of core clinical problems allows a problem-orientated approach to learning in parallel with lectures, tutorials and a systematic training in clinical skills. Learning is integrated and vocational skills are developed through additional experiences on wards and in primary care.
A transition module at the end of Year 3 will prepare you for your studies on clinical attachments in Phase 3.
16 weeks of dedicated SSC time divided equally between Years 2 and 3.
Option of undertaking one year BMSc degree to study one of the basic medical sciences in more depth, usually between Phases 2 and 3. (Courses are currently available in anatomy, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, developmental and molecular medicine, forensic medicine, medical microbiology, medical psychology, pharmacology and physiology.)
Phase 3
Years 4 and 5
Application of the skills and knowledge acquired in the earlier phases is practised in a variety of clinical settings in hospital (e.g. medical, surgical, obstetric, child health, and psychiatric services) and in general practice. Study guides on the core clinical problems support the tasks required to demonstrate the curriculum outcomes have been achieved.
Year 4 - 10 x 4 week blocks (clinical attachments).
A six week elective period between Years 4 and 5 allows you to study medicine at a centre of your choice. An extended 4 month placement in Malawi is available.
In the final year only medical and surgical Foundation apprenticeships and GP blocks are stipulated. The remaining four attachments are student selected and may include extended GP placements or specialist units within the UK
Year 5 - 7 x 4 week blocks
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
- Minimum Requirements:
SQA Higher: AAABB
GCE A-Level: AAA (A2) excluding General Studies
ILC Higher: AAAAAA
IB Diploma: 37 points with 6, 6, 6 at HL
- Essential Subjects:
Chemistry and another science (Higher, A-L, ILC H, HL) and biology (SG at 2, Int2 at C, GCSE at B, Ord at B, SL at 5).
- Graduates:
An upper second class Honours degree in a science discipline.
- Notes on Entry Requirements:
1. Applicants are expected to demonstrate some knowledge of, and commitment to, medicine. We encourage prospective students to have medically-related work or shadowing experience, to visit Dundee and find out about the course.
2. All Highers and A-Levels applicants must have obtained these qualifications at the first opportunity. Applications with re-taken qualifications are not considered.
3. If biology has not been passed at Higher or A-Level this subject must normally have been passed as indicated under entry requirements. An appropriate group of SQA (formerly SCOTVEC) National Certificate modules may be accepted as an alternative to Standard Grade biology. A good pass in Combined or Dual Science at GCSE may be accepted instead of a single GCSE pass in biology. A physics qualification is not an entry requirement. However, knowledge of physics is helpful to students on the course.
4. Human biology or social biology is accepted as an alternative to biology at Higher or A-Level.
5. The premedical year is designed for very able applicants who have a predominantly non-science background (i.e. those who have not studied either Higher or A-Level chemistry). Passing with satisfactory grade average guarantees your entry into the medical course itself.
6. All applications for 2012 must be made through the UCAS website (by 15 October 2011.
7. Applicants for medicine may only list four medicine courses on the UCAS application form.
8. As a general rule applicants presenting qualifications from countries other than the UK or Ireland are expected to have attained these at a level sufficient for entry to medical school in their home country. It would be helpful if UCAS referees' reports could indicate what these requirements are.
9. Dundee University Medical School requires:
- all applicants to sit the UK clinical aptitude test (UKCAT); and
- all applicants (including overseas) to attend for interview prior to an offer of a place.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | High School diploma |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Accreditation
Professional Accreditation:
Fully accredited by the professional governing body for medicine in the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC)
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